16/07/2012

:00:13. > :00:16.Thousands of athletes and officials begin arriving for the 2012 Games.

:00:16. > :00:20.As the teams touch down, questions remain about security. The London

:00:20. > :00:25.Mayor says the city will be safe. These Games are going to be very

:00:25. > :00:27.safe, very secure. Obviously, you can never be complacent about

:00:27. > :00:30.security. Improving the railways: more than

:00:30. > :00:39.�9 billion will be pumped into the network. Passengers will pay some

:00:39. > :00:43.of it. Side by side: David Cameron and

:00:43. > :00:47.Nick Clegg dismiss suggestions that the coalition is under strain.

:00:47. > :00:51.even more committed to a coalition Government, to making this

:00:51. > :00:53.coalition Government today than I was in 2010 when Nick Clegg and I

:00:53. > :01:00.formed this Government. Kenyans arrive in court to fight

:01:00. > :01:03.for damages over alleged colonial atrocities in the '50s.

:01:03. > :01:13.And Born to Over-Run - organisers explain why they pulled the plug on

:01:13. > :01:21.

:01:21. > :01:31.Springsteen and McCartney. Later on BBC London: How commuters

:01:31. > :01:42.

:01:42. > :01:48.are bracing themselves for the Good afternoon and welcome to the

:01:48. > :01:51.BBC News at One. The Government and the London Mayor have reassured

:01:51. > :01:54.athletes and officials arriving from around the world today that

:01:54. > :01:56.the Olympics will be safe. Questions remain about security

:01:57. > :02:00.after the private company G4S admitted it could not provide

:02:00. > :02:02.sufficient guards for the Games. In the last half hour it has been

:02:02. > :02:07.announced Theresa May will answer questions in the House of Commons

:02:07. > :02:11.this afternoon. Here's our sports correspondent, Tim Franks. Seven

:02:11. > :02:14.years to triprepare, now something of a scramble. At short order

:02:14. > :02:18.another 3,500 troops have been called up to provide extra security

:02:18. > :02:25.at the Games and for those arriving at the Olympic Park today. The

:02:25. > :02:28.reason, the inability of the private security firm G4S to

:02:28. > :02:33.provide trained staff. It's absolutely vital we get the message

:02:33. > :02:36.across these Games are going to be very safe, very secure. Obviously,

:02:36. > :02:39.you can never be complacent about security. You can never take

:02:39. > :02:44.anything for granted, and huge amounts of work continue to be done,

:02:44. > :02:49.particularly on the intelligence side, to make sure we've

:02:49. > :02:53.anticipated every conceivable threat, but London will be very,

:02:53. > :02:57.very safe. G4S have apologised and say they'll pay up to �50 million

:02:57. > :02:59.for the cost of the extra troops. That may not save the job of the

:02:59. > :03:04.Chief Executive of the company, seen here on the right. It

:03:04. > :03:08.certainly won't stop Labour saying the Government is also responsible.

:03:08. > :03:11.I think it's still incomprehensible that the Home Secretary should not

:03:11. > :03:16.have known until Wednesday what the problem was, but it's also

:03:16. > :03:20.important the problem is sorted now. That's why she needs to demonstrate

:03:20. > :03:25.she's got a grip because we all want the Olympics to be fantastic

:03:25. > :03:28.and make sure the plan is in place. It's not a shambles. The Government

:03:28. > :03:31.has done what is right for Government to do - when the

:03:32. > :03:34.contractors said they weren't able to provide the number of staff that

:03:34. > :03:38.they had contracted to provide, it was absolutely right for the

:03:38. > :03:42.Government to move in and to put arrangements in place to ensure we

:03:42. > :03:46.had the personnel on the ground to ensure security. In just over a

:03:46. > :03:53.week, you won't be able to see the ground at the Olympic Park for the

:03:53. > :03:59.crowds swarming over it. The Ernest hope of organisers is the current

:03:59. > :04:02.kerfuffle over security will be swept away over the celebrations,

:04:02. > :04:05.rather than the oppress age of the message to come.

:04:05. > :04:08.Heathrow Airport says athletes from 50 nations are expected to start

:04:08. > :04:11.arriving today, and it says it has additional staff on duty to cope.

:04:11. > :04:14.The athletes will be heading towards the Olympic Village in

:04:14. > :04:19.Stratford. We'll be at the Olympic Park with our correspondent Katie

:04:19. > :04:23.Gornell in a moment, but first, Luisa Baldini is at Heathrow.

:04:23. > :04:27.Well, unfortunately, the weather hasn't been very welcoming. It has

:04:27. > :04:33.been raining for much of the day. One of the athletes asked if he'd

:04:33. > :04:38.landed at the Winter Olympics. But joking aside, it is important for

:04:38. > :04:42.the athletes to acclimatise to the British winter conditions. That's

:04:42. > :04:46.why so many of them have started arriving, and so far here at

:04:46. > :04:50.Heathrow, all has been running smoothly. Arriving at Heathrow was

:04:50. > :04:54.a breeze for the American sailing team this morning. The first among

:04:54. > :05:00.many athletes who will be touching down this week, their first

:05:00. > :05:04.impression was positive. Taking a look at what London has put

:05:04. > :05:08.together, the accredititation process, all the support staff the

:05:08. > :05:13.host city has put together, it's going to be a great event. Hoping

:05:13. > :05:17.to smooth the arrival experience are a thousand volunteers from the

:05:17. > :05:22.local community speaking 20 languages between them. I expected

:05:22. > :05:27.the normal staff and the people did - the volunteers coming to meet you,

:05:27. > :05:29.the help with immigration, which was great. They just led Us

:05:29. > :05:34.straight through. Heathrow was the host airport for the 2012 Olympics.

:05:34. > :05:38.80% of all Games visitors will be passing through here, so it's a

:05:38. > :05:41.testing time for the airport. have been planning for the last

:05:41. > :05:45.seven years. We have been learning as much as we can from the other

:05:45. > :05:49.host airports, so we have been to Beijing and Vancouver and Athens

:05:49. > :05:52.and Sydney and learned what they can do. Following mounting

:05:52. > :05:56.criticism about the length of immigration queues at Heathrow,

:05:56. > :06:00.there have been assurances from the Home Office that there will be

:06:00. > :06:07.extra passport staff and priority channels for athletes and officials,

:06:07. > :06:11.but it's not just passengers the airport's handling. With Olympians

:06:11. > :06:14.comes a lot of luggage of all shapes and sizes. The airport

:06:14. > :06:19.carried out training exercises earlier this year to cope with all

:06:19. > :06:24.the excess baggage. Once reunited with their kit, buses pick the

:06:24. > :06:27.athletes up and ferry them to the Olympic Village along special games

:06:27. > :06:33.lanes, the first of which came into operation on the M4 this morning.

:06:33. > :06:39.So after years of planning, London 2012 is finally on its way.

:06:39. > :06:43.Over 300 athletes are expected to arrive today. There will be more

:06:43. > :06:49.arriving every day during the next week with the peak expected to be

:06:49. > :06:54.next Tuesday, July the 24th. Over a thousand athletes arriving on that

:06:54. > :06:59.day alone. But bear in mind there will be lots of VIPs. There are

:06:59. > :07:02.also lots of Olympic sponsors arriving here, so it is going to be

:07:02. > :07:05.a very busy period here at Heathrow over the next few weeks.

:07:05. > :07:08.Thank you very much. The athletes arriving today will be

:07:08. > :07:11.heading towards Stratford in East London and will be the first to

:07:11. > :07:17.take up residence at the Olympic Village. Katie Gornall joins us

:07:17. > :07:21.from the Olympic Park. So how was the athletes' journey to the

:07:22. > :07:28.Olympic Park, Katie? As you say, they'll be going down the M4 and

:07:28. > :07:34.arriving here at the Olympic Park, more specifically at the Athletes'

:07:34. > :07:37.Village. Athletes from around 30 treams will be arriving there.

:07:37. > :07:40.They'll get to hear their National Anthem played. They'll see their

:07:40. > :07:44.national flag raised. For some of them, it could be the first and

:07:44. > :07:49.only time they get that experience at the Games unless they make the

:07:49. > :07:53.podium. Members of Team GB are arriving today, including the

:07:53. > :08:03.woman's football team. They have been on Twitter expressing their

:08:03. > :08:28.

:08:28. > :08:32.excitement of making their way to The other venues are still having

:08:32. > :08:37.the finishing touches applied, something the athletes will notice

:08:37. > :08:42.if they do make the short walk down to the Olympic Park. Aside from the

:08:42. > :08:46.number of military personnel walking down to the park are a

:08:46. > :08:51.large number of construction workers. People in hard hats and

:08:51. > :08:55.yellow vests getting things ready. You can hear heavy machinery

:08:55. > :08:59.getting ready. The venue itself is still being completed and the

:08:59. > :09:02.finishing touches at the Games just days away. Thank you very much.

:09:02. > :09:05.Ministers are describing it as the biggest investment in the railways

:09:05. > :09:08.since the Victorian era. Today they announced a �9.4 billion package of

:09:08. > :09:11.improvements, around half of them new schemes that should lead to

:09:11. > :09:14.faster and more reliable trains across England and Wales. But there

:09:14. > :09:24.are fears that fares will have to keep rising to pay for it all.

:09:24. > :09:25.

:09:25. > :09:30.Here's our transport correspondent Richard Westcott. The scale is

:09:30. > :09:35.ambitious - new electric lines will mean faster trains and more seats

:09:35. > :09:41.across England and Wales. Stations will be upgraded. Track replaced.

:09:41. > :09:45.In all, nearly �9.5 billion will be spent modernising the railways, �5

:09:45. > :09:49.billion on schemes that are already under way and �4 billion on new

:09:49. > :09:53.schemes. It's a huge investment. It's really the most serious

:09:53. > :09:57.investment going into our railways since Victorian times. It's on the

:09:57. > :10:01.back of �18 billion already invested as part of the spending

:10:01. > :10:05.review. It's more capacity, further connections with people, faster

:10:05. > :10:10.journey times. Much of the cash will go on electrifying lines. The

:10:10. > :10:15.route from London to South Wales will now be upgraded all the way to

:10:15. > :10:19.Swansea. I think it will make a difference. It's going to be 15

:10:19. > :10:27.minutes faster to London, so 15 minutes off the journey for people.

:10:28. > :10:31.It's going to help save the planet as well. With a really good

:10:31. > :10:36.infrastructure and transport infrastructure, then it's difficult

:10:36. > :10:40.for the economy. In Manchester, Leeds and York, the main line

:10:40. > :10:45.running up the spine of England will be electrification from

:10:45. > :10:48.Sheffield all the way to London. This is a diesel train. It costs

:10:48. > :10:53.more to run than an electric train, and it's slower between the

:10:53. > :10:57.stations as well, so if you swap that for electric, you could save

:10:57. > :11:00.something like ten minutes off the journey from here in London to

:11:00. > :11:04.Sheffield. The big question is, is the passengers who are going to end

:11:04. > :11:08.up paying for all these upgrades? Our concern is passengers will be

:11:08. > :11:11.priced off the railways? There will be all of these gleaming new

:11:11. > :11:15.electric trains which will be great, but people won't be able to afford

:11:15. > :11:19.to travel on them because the Government will have insisted on

:11:19. > :11:25.putting up fares above and beyond inflation for the foreseeable

:11:25. > :11:29.future. When Richard Beeching suggested savage cuts in the 1960s,

:11:29. > :11:32.many forecast the slow death of the railway, but today they carry

:11:32. > :11:37.record numbers. The Government won't actually start

:11:37. > :11:42.spending this cash for at least two years, but they were out in force

:11:42. > :11:45.today, keen the look like they're investing in growth. After a recent

:11:45. > :11:49.aviation paper was postponed because of tensions in the

:11:49. > :11:52.coalition, Ministers want to prove they agree on something.

:11:52. > :11:55.As we saw there, David Cameron and Nick Clegg staged a show of unity

:11:55. > :11:58.as they made that announcement at a railway depot. The Prime Minister

:11:58. > :12:01.said he was "even more committed" to the coalition Government than

:12:01. > :12:04.when it was first formed two years ago despite the questions raised

:12:04. > :12:11.over the future of the partnership by last week's Tory rebellion over

:12:11. > :12:15.Lords reform. Really what has driven this Government is a view

:12:15. > :12:19.that we need to get things done, a view that we need to safeguard the

:12:19. > :12:22.British economy in difficult times, but above all that what we do is

:12:22. > :12:26.about the national interests. That is what drives the Deputy Prime

:12:26. > :12:31.Minister and I. That is what this Government is all about. That is

:12:31. > :12:35.its foundation. I think that the reasons why this coalition

:12:35. > :12:39.Government was formed and the purpose of two parties to come

:12:39. > :12:43.together to form a coalition Government - those reasons are as

:12:43. > :12:47.strong today - if not stronger, arguably, given all the challenges

:12:47. > :12:51.we face - than they were back in May 2010. Nick Clegg and David

:12:51. > :12:55.Cameron. Let's talk now to our political correspondent Norman

:12:55. > :13:00.Smith. He joins us from Smethwick in the West Midlands where that

:13:00. > :13:05.rail announcement was made. How far do you see this as a relaunch of

:13:05. > :13:08.the coalition Government? Well, it may seem an awfully long way from

:13:08. > :13:13.the sun-kissed rose garden press conference by the two men after the

:13:13. > :13:19.election to today's rain-sodden rail siding outing, but the two are

:13:19. > :13:22.linked because if not a coalition relaunch, it is most certainly a

:13:22. > :13:26.coalition respray, an attempt to represent the benefits of coalition

:13:26. > :13:29.Government as they see them to the electorate and to those in their

:13:29. > :13:33.respective parties that do not believe or do not want the

:13:33. > :13:36.coalition to survive until 2015 with both men saying they believe

:13:36. > :13:41.the benefits of coalition Government now are actually greater

:13:41. > :13:45.than in 2010 precisely because coalition Government can take tough

:13:45. > :13:50.economic decisions which they say would be much harder for a minority

:13:50. > :13:53.single-party Government, also setting out the prospect of a new

:13:53. > :13:57.coalition two document in the autumn with the next steps for the

:13:57. > :14:03.coalition for the preand myer of this Parliament, but it seems to me

:14:03. > :14:05.aside from the respray, there is a harsh economic reality binding

:14:05. > :14:10.Messieurs Clegg and Cameron together, and that is the deficit

:14:10. > :14:13.and the double dip, with neither men wanting to have to go to the

:14:13. > :14:17.electorate or risk spooking the markets before the economy is well

:14:17. > :14:20.on the road to recovery. Thank you, Norman Smith joining us

:14:20. > :14:26.from Smethwick. The population of England and Wales

:14:26. > :14:30.has gone up to more than 56 million, a rise of 7% over the last decade.

:14:30. > :14:36.The census survey showed the largest growth in any period since

:14:37. > :14:39.records began. Our home editor Mark Easton joins us from central London

:14:39. > :14:47.from the Office for National Statistics which released those

:14:47. > :14:52.census results. What else did they Fascinating, as you can see there

:14:52. > :14:58.is is a bit of London outside of the rain. London had the biggest

:14:58. > :15:01.rise in population. 12%, compared to 2001. Also, an interesting point.

:15:01. > :15:09.We have been trying to guess how many people there are in England

:15:09. > :15:14.and Wales over the last ten years, so the Census, it acts as a

:15:14. > :15:18.benchmark. How close were we? We were close, less than 1% to the

:15:18. > :15:23.official figures to what the Census suggests it is, but that accounts

:15:23. > :15:26.for almost half a million people. So an additional half a million

:15:27. > :15:30.than we thought and the likely reason for that is that we

:15:30. > :15:34.undercounted the impact of net migration on England and Wales

:15:34. > :15:39.during the last ten years. Some interesting smaller points that

:15:39. > :15:44.come out of this, the number of people over 90 in England and Wales

:15:44. > :15:52.is well over 430,000 now. The number of children under the age of

:15:52. > :15:57.five, a real baby boom over ten years, an additional 400,000

:15:57. > :16:01.smaller children around today than there were in 2011. Another

:16:01. > :16:06.interesting point, we have 1 million more people in their 20s

:16:06. > :16:09.than we had so years ago. That is very much down to the number of

:16:09. > :16:14.migrant workers who have come here in the last ten years.

:16:14. > :16:18.Mark, whether the numbers are picked over, what impact does it

:16:18. > :16:23.have over future policy? I'm sure that people will be pouring over

:16:23. > :16:26.the data to see how they relate to what they thought the figures were.

:16:26. > :16:30.If you are a local authority or service provider, these figures are

:16:30. > :16:34.hugely important to you. It may be in terms of the budget you get if

:16:34. > :16:37.you are a loul council it could anybody terms of future planning if

:16:38. > :16:42.you are in education or health, what we need to provide for the

:16:42. > :16:46.population shape that we are now having? What will that look like

:16:46. > :16:50.going forward? One of the things that will happen in the autumn now

:16:50. > :16:54.is that the Office for National Statistics will be revising their

:16:54. > :16:58.overall population project ex-s, based on the new benchmark of the

:16:58. > :17:01.Census. We can pretty much guarantee that the expectations is

:17:01. > :17:08.that the population will be larger than we thought.

:17:08. > :17:15.Thank you very much. Now the top story:

:17:15. > :17:17.Thousands of athletes and officials begin to arrive for the 2012 Games

:17:17. > :17:22.as Government ministers and the Lord Mayor answer questions about

:17:22. > :17:27.security. Coming up: Why are you on the run? You have dumped thousands

:17:27. > :17:31.of tyres on innocent people, tell us why? The BBC tracks down those

:17:31. > :17:36.responsible for the fly-tipping of tyres.

:17:37. > :17:42.And on BBC London: The giant oil tanks showcasing the latest art and

:17:42. > :17:51.performance at Tate porn modern and how much worse will it get? A full

:17:51. > :17:55.weather forecast, all to come in ten minutes.

:17:55. > :18:00.The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, has accused Western

:18:00. > :18:06.powers of blackmail for their efforts to get Moscow to agree

:18:06. > :18:13.sanctions against Syria. He is meeting the UN Special Envoy on

:18:13. > :18:18.Syria, Kofi Annan today. Shots ringing out at dawn today

:18:18. > :18:22.over a Damascus suburb. Fofr the second day running,

:18:22. > :18:28.clashing between the rebels and government forces have brought

:18:28. > :18:34.Syria's conflict to the capital. All of this is unverified footage,

:18:34. > :18:39.but yesterday one eyewitness said it was like a war zone. This was,

:18:39. > :18:43.apparently in a district outside of Damascus, the residents fleeing

:18:43. > :18:47.heavy shelling. People called it the worst clash in Damascus since

:18:47. > :18:51.the uprising began, the Syrian government seems powerless to stop

:18:51. > :18:55.it. Another dangerous mission for the UN observers, they were sent to

:18:55. > :18:59.Syria to monitor a ceasefire. Today they set off for the Damascus

:18:59. > :19:02.suburbs to see for themselves a conflict that the Red Cross is now

:19:02. > :19:08.calling to all intents and purposes, Civil War.

:19:08. > :19:11.This weekend it was reported that the mass killings in the village of

:19:11. > :19:15.Tremseh that the UN was investigating. Today a spokesperson

:19:15. > :19:19.confirmed that they found 50 homes destroyed and the use of heavy

:19:19. > :19:23.weapons and reports of summary executions.

:19:23. > :19:28.According to those interviewed it started with shelling, after that

:19:28. > :19:33.there were ground operations. According to them, the Syrian army

:19:33. > :19:38.went and conducted house-to-house searches. They asked for men, they

:19:38. > :19:43.asked for their ID cards. After, some of these men were killed.

:19:43. > :19:48.Meanwhile, the UN Security Council is deadlocked over terms for

:19:48. > :19:53.extending the UN monitor's mission, the deadline is Friday. The UN

:19:53. > :19:58.peace envoy, Kofi Annan, has gone to Moscow, hoping to persuade the

:19:58. > :20:02.Russians to include the threat of sanctions on Syria but the Russian

:20:02. > :20:08.Foreign Minister was having none of There are even elements of

:20:08. > :20:12.blackmail, we are told if we don't agree to a new UN resolution, then

:20:12. > :20:17.the UN monitoring mission will not be extended.

:20:17. > :20:23.For its part, the Syrian government insists that is the armed rebels

:20:23. > :20:27.that should be blamed for the violence.

:20:27. > :20:31.Three Ken yons who allege they were tortured by the British colonial

:20:31. > :20:35.authorities have taken their battle to the High Court. They claim they

:20:35. > :20:39.were victims of brutality at the hands of the British officials,

:20:39. > :20:44.during the Mau Mau uprising. It ended British rule in encar.

:20:44. > :20:47.They are old now, but not diminished by age. More than half a

:20:47. > :20:51.century after the Mau Mau uprising, thee three Ken yons have brought

:20:51. > :20:55.their fight to London. They claim they were the victims of torture

:20:55. > :21:00.and abuse at the hands of British officials during the rebellion

:21:00. > :21:07.against colonial rule in the 1950s and in the early 60s.

:21:07. > :21:12.The clients are elderly with likely few years left to live. Two are in

:21:12. > :21:15.their 80s. If they are successful at trial, they will be worth

:21:15. > :21:18.considerable sums, but what they want is an apology for the abuse

:21:18. > :21:23.that they were subjected to and to be able to live out the fine years

:21:23. > :21:27.of their lives with a degree of dignity. In the Mau Mau rebellion,

:21:27. > :21:31.the rebels attacked and killed some white farmers as well as thousands

:21:31. > :21:35.of their own who, fought with the British against the uprising. Tens

:21:35. > :21:41.of thousands of Ken yons were detained in prison camps. Many died

:21:41. > :21:45.there and many were tortured. The Nobel Laureate, Archbishop

:21:45. > :21:48.Desmond Tutu has intervened in the case. He has written directly to

:21:48. > :21:50.David Cameron, having met the Prime Minister in South Africa last year.

:21:50. > :21:53.In his letter, Archbishop Desmond Tutu said that the evidence of

:21:53. > :21:57.torture in Kenya was clear and substantial.

:21:57. > :22:01.He said it was high time that the British Government showed

:22:01. > :22:06.compassion. According to the lawyers for the

:22:06. > :22:11.former maur Mau Mau fighters, the group represents a wider community

:22:11. > :22:17.of elderly Kenyans, still alive and who were the victims of brutality.

:22:17. > :22:21.The Foreign Office has said that the Mau Mau issue remains divisive.

:22:21. > :22:29.That this period of Kenyan history caused a great deal of pain for

:22:29. > :22:32.many on all sides. The leader of Scotland's Roman

:22:32. > :22:36.Catholics, Cardinal Keith O'Brien, is calling for a referendum on gay

:22:36. > :22:41.marriage. The Scottish Government is expected to publish plans this

:22:41. > :22:46.week that would allow same-sex couples to marry. At the moment

:22:46. > :22:50.they can tern into a civil partnership. 80,000 people

:22:50. > :22:55.responded were consulted on the issue.

:22:55. > :23:00.The BBC has cut the pay bill for its biggest stars by 25%, according

:23:00. > :23:03.to its annual report on accounts. It paid more than �16 million to

:23:04. > :23:06.the top talent, that is down from more than �21 million the year

:23:06. > :23:11.before. The British countryside is littered

:23:11. > :23:15.with tense of thousands of used tyres that are meant to have been

:23:15. > :23:19.recycled. The BBC's Panorama programme had tracked down some of

:23:19. > :23:24.those responsible for what is big described as fly-tipping on an epic

:23:24. > :23:29.scale. Some of these vast illegal dumps of

:23:29. > :23:34.triers are so big they can be picked up by satellites in space.

:23:34. > :23:39.At one point there were over 2 million tyres dumped at this site

:23:39. > :23:46.in the Hampshire countryside. This should not be happening.

:23:47. > :23:51.The so-called green theme, usually between �1 and �2 a tyre, that we

:23:51. > :23:56.pay to garages was introduced by the industry to ensure that the

:23:56. > :24:01.tyres were recycled, but those paid to dispose of the tyres are not

:24:01. > :24:08.recycling them. They are running scams and instead dump them on

:24:08. > :24:14.unsuspecting land owners. You pay the price to have the tyres

:24:14. > :24:22.disposed of in a friendly American, but these criminals are laughing in

:24:22. > :24:27.the face of the law, ripping us off. Steve and Amy Marlow run a

:24:27. > :24:31.recycling scam in North Wales. They collected fees from garages to

:24:31. > :24:36.dispose of thousands of waste tyres. They would then rent farm

:24:36. > :24:41.warehouses to put them in. Like this one. Three years ago they told

:24:41. > :24:45.the owner, that they were bringing in a shredding machine to help

:24:45. > :24:51.recycling tyres. As the tyre mounting grew, still no

:24:51. > :24:56.sign of a shredding machine. Then one day, Steve and Amy Marlow

:24:56. > :25:01.disappeared. The Marlows' few weeks of work

:25:01. > :25:05.netted them more than �15,000. Every morning I wake up, the first

:25:05. > :25:13.thing that comes into the head is I have to get rid of the tyres, who

:25:13. > :25:17.do I do it. How do I get the money? We tracked the pair to Majorca, but

:25:17. > :25:21.Steven Marlow was not willing to talk about the money he taken and

:25:21. > :25:26.the huge tyre dumps he had left behind.

:25:26. > :25:30.Why are you on the run? You have dumped thousands much tyres? Can

:25:30. > :25:33.you tell us why you dumped thousands of tyres on innocent

:25:33. > :25:39.people in North Wales and come running here too? Are you going

:25:39. > :25:44.back to the UK to face justice? So, who is regulating the disposal of

:25:44. > :25:49.tyres in Britain? The Tyre Recovery Association reinglaets the process,

:25:49. > :25:53.but they say more enforcement and resources are needed to be given to

:25:54. > :25:58.the Environment Agency to go after the jeeing operators. As in the

:25:58. > :26:04.case of this fire in Swansea last year, it is the Environment Agency

:26:04. > :26:10.and the taxpayer who is left with the toxic mix of black smoke and

:26:10. > :26:12.the clean-up bill. Well you can see more of that in

:26:12. > :26:17.Panorama: Britain's Biggest Waste Dumpers.

:26:17. > :26:20.It is on tonight at 8.30pm on BBC One.

:26:20. > :26:23.Officials at the Tour de France have asked the police to

:26:23. > :26:27.investigate after at least 30 riders suffered from punctures at

:26:28. > :26:33.the top of the final climb in yesterday's 14th stage of the race.

:26:33. > :26:36.Tacks and small nails were thrown on to the road. British cyclist,

:26:36. > :26:43.Bradley Wiggins was not affected but slowed down to allow the others

:26:44. > :26:48.to catch up. He holds a two- minute, 5 second lead.

:26:48. > :26:53.Someone had thrown tacks on the floors it shows it not necessarily

:26:53. > :26:56.what happens on the bike, but how the public affect the bike race.

:26:56. > :27:00.The race could be over for something as stupid as that.

:27:00. > :27:03.Concert organisers who pulled the plug on a performance by Bruce

:27:03. > :27:07.Springsteen and Sir Paul McCartney in Hyde Park in London on Saturday

:27:07. > :27:11.night have been criticised for sticking to a sound curfew. The men

:27:11. > :27:17.this the microphones cut to comply with the terms of the show's

:27:17. > :27:24.licence that set a finishing time of 10.30pm, so the local residents

:27:24. > :27:30.were not disturbed by the noise. Sir Paul McCartney joining Bruce

:27:30. > :27:33.Springsteen on stage for the climax of the American rock stars'

:27:33. > :27:39.Saturday knight headline performance at the London's Hard

:27:39. > :27:43.Rock Calling event. A dream collaboration that or for many

:27:43. > :27:49.became close to a nightmare when the sound was cut off. The three-

:27:49. > :27:52.hour plus set, supposed to end at 10730pm, exceeded that. Bruce

:27:52. > :27:59.Springsteen was addressing the crowd, unaway that the plug had

:27:59. > :28:03.been pulled. While fans voiced their disapproval.

:28:03. > :28:08.One of Bruce Springsteen's backing band, Steven van Zandt took to

:28:08. > :28:11.Twitter to complain, saying that one of the great gigs ever, and

:28:11. > :28:17.seriously, whether did England become a police state? Maybe the

:28:17. > :28:20.only individuals left on earth that would not want to hear one more

:28:20. > :28:23.from Bruce Springsteen and Sir Paul McCartney. A fan summed up his

:28:23. > :28:28.frustration. How dare they pull the plug on

:28:28. > :28:33.these two guys and the whole band, making music history, rock history

:28:33. > :28:36.together, and some jobs' worth has gone, you are out of here it was

:28:36. > :28:46.weird! The concert organisers who made the decision defended what

:28:46. > :28:53.

:28:53. > :28:58.Westminster council adding that licences for such events are

:28:58. > :29:03.granted only until certain times to protect the residents from late-

:29:03. > :29:09.night noise. That may not satisfy many who paid more than �50 for a

:29:09. > :29:13.ticket and were disappointed that a meeting between two music legends

:29:13. > :29:18.ended in such a frustrating fashion. Now, the weather.

:29:19. > :29:23.Grey skies again from Laura. More frustration from people with

:29:23. > :29:27.yet more wet weather. For many of us this week we start with the

:29:27. > :29:32.unsettled theme of weather, perhaps more optimistic to next week with

:29:32. > :29:34.not so much rain, but today, more not so much rain, but today, more

:29:34. > :29:38.cloud, more rain. Theada showing Moving in this morning across the

:29:38. > :29:42.western areas, it has been heavy over Wales it is transferring into

:29:42. > :29:52.the the central areas of England and Wales. For many it is the south

:29:52. > :29:54.

:29:54. > :29:59.half of the -- southern half of the UK and with windy conditions adding

:29:59. > :30:03.on top of the rain. For the north, we could get up to

:30:03. > :30:08.17 or 18 Celsius. Heavier spells of rain in East Anglia. For the

:30:08. > :30:13.southern areas of England it is set to be a windy afternoon. Gusts

:30:13. > :30:17.around some coasts are up to 35 mph. It is grey along the southern

:30:17. > :30:22.coasts with mist and low cloud as well. The rain is there thorough

:30:22. > :30:26.the evening in Wales, but easing off through the afternoon.

:30:26. > :30:30.Northern Ireland is hit and miss with showers in the south. Brighter

:30:30. > :30:33.skies in the north. For Scotland a few showers over the southern half,

:30:33. > :30:39.the rain easing in the north and where the sunshine comes out here

:30:39. > :30:43.we could get up to 18 Celsius. So, a damp end to the day in the south,

:30:43. > :30:48.but the first spell of rain for the week is to clear overnight.

:30:48. > :30:54.Staying mild in England and Wales, though, you notice 15 Celsius is

:30:54. > :31:01.the overnight low. Clear spells in the lort, a little cooler at up to

:31:01. > :31:06.-- in the north, a little cooler at 8 Celsius. Then Tuesday, the second

:31:06. > :31:10.spell of wet weather affecting the north of the country, Scotland,

:31:10. > :31:15.Northern Ireland, northern England, picking up rain that is heavy. In

:31:15. > :31:19.the south, though, with humid air and sunshine, we could get up to 23

:31:19. > :31:23.Celsius. So 9 rain sets in tomorrow. Turning heavy tomorrow night and

:31:23. > :31:28.this weather front staying with us into Wednesday.

:31:28. > :31:31.Northern England, southern Scotland, set to see an inch or two of rain

:31:31. > :31:34.falling, the ground is saturated. There could be further flooding.

:31:34. > :31:41.South of here with the July sunshine and there will be some,

:31:41. > :31:46.the temperatures are into the low 20s. A breather towards the end of

:31:46. > :31:48.the week. The heavy rain easing off. Then a story of sunshine and